Collage Playing Cards

 Update on my collage project started in March.

Using playing cards as my substrate

& collage material from

Contemporary Collage Magazine

with additional newspaper lettering.

Milestone

Until

A bit of nonsense

Drip Drip Drip

Unbelievable

Altered Reality

The Art Deal

Pointless

Watch out

Word Salad

Parallel Universe

Tick Tock

Success

Ready Steady Go

The Art of Rage

 During Februllage 2025,

I used an old pack of playing cards

as the substrate of my 28 daily collages,

which left me with 24.

Too few to keep for next years challenge,

so I thought I would use them

for the odd collage here and there,

throughout the rest of the year.

Here is the first.

I used material from

Contemporary Collage Magazine 

with additional lettering

from my newspaper clippings.

Februllage 2025 Week Four

A round up of the fourth & final week of Februllage 2025.

I used a pack of old playing cards

with collage material from

Contemporary Collage Magazine. 

Day 22 - Vinyl

Day 23 - Tapestry

Day 24 - Lost

Day 25 - Drawing

Day 26 - Suitcase

Day 27 - Doubt

Day 28 - Crown

Another creative challenge completed.

I wonder what will be next.

Februllage 2025 Week Three

 A round up of the third week of the annual collage challenge,

which takes place every day throughout February.

Using a pack of old playing cards

with collage material from

Contemporary Collage Magazine.

Day 15 - Tiger

Day 16 - Freeze

Day 17 - Jelly

Day 18 - Polaroid

Day 19 - Tape roll

Day 20 - Dive

Day 21 - Old

Februllage 2025 Week Two

 I am taking part in the Februllage collage event this year.

Here are my altered playing cards for the prompts from the second week.

Day 8: Cartoon

Day 9: Horizon

Day 10: Dots 

Day 11: Stuck

Day 12: Online

Day 13: Heavy

Day 14: Romance

All collage material is from Contemporary Collage Magazine.

Februllage 2025 Week One

 It's been a few years since I last took part in the yearly Februllage event.

        Februllage is organised jointly by

    Edinburgh Collage Collective

    & Scandinavian Collage Museum.

        Each day throughout February

        there is a different word prompt

     to inspire your collage.

       This year I am working on an old set of playing cards.

        My aim is to complete a collage a day,

        concentrating on the process,

        rather than the result.

Day 1: Trees

Day 2: Shell

Day 3: School

Day 4: Dice

Day 5: Chaos

Day 6: Metal

Day 7: Neighbourhood

Deck of Cards Collage Challenge - Week 52

This is my altered miniature playing card

for week 52 of the

Deck of Cards Collage challenge.

The challenge was to create a collage

using a specified playing card

& if you wanted to,

follow additional prompts.

The final card in the pack

was the ACE of SPADES

& the optional prompt was

CELEBRATION.

She celebrated

I used collage paper from

The 2022 Artist Almanac,

words cut from an old novel

with my printed week number label.

Here are the last four collages,

which completes this year long challenge.

Weeks 49 to 52

Deck of Cards Collage Challenge - Week 51

This is my altered miniature playing card

for week 51 of the

Deck of Cards Collage challenge.

The challenge is to create a collage

using a specified playing card

& if you want to,

follow additional prompts.

The card chosen this week

was the TWO of DIAMONDS

& the optional prompt was

WINTER.

Playmates

I used a page from

The 2022 Artist Almanac

with my printed week number label.

Deck of Cards Collage Challenge - Week 50

This is my altered miniature playing card

for week 50 of the

Deck of Cards Collage Challenge.

The challenge is to create a collage

using a specified playing card

& if you want to,

follow additional prompts.

The card chosen this week

was the NINE of CLUBS

& the optional prompt was

HAT/HEADWEAR

They wore many hats

I used images from

Graphics Fairy

with my printed week number label.

Deck of Cards Collage Challenge - Week 49

This is my altered miniature playing card

for week 49 of the

Deck of Cards Collage challenge.

The challenge is to create a collage

using a specified playing card

& if you want to,

follow additional prompts.

The card chosen this week

was the EIGHT of DIAMONDS

& the optional prompt was

MYSTERIOUS.

Unknown origin

I used collage paper from

The 2022 Artist Almanac 

with my printed week number label.

Deck of Cards Collage Challenge - Week 48

This is my altered miniature playing card

for week 48 of the

Deck of Cards Collage challenge.

The challenge is to create a collage

using a specified playing card

& if you want to,

follow additional prompts.

The card chosen this week

was the NINE of HEARTS

& the optional prompt was

WINDOW.

Pain

I used collage papers from

the 2022 Artist Almanac with

 my printed week number label.

As we have completed

another 12 collages,

here is my next

Grid of Twelve.

 

Weeks 37 to 48